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'Royal Journey' is a National Film Board of Canada documentary film chronicling a five-week Royal visit by The Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her husband, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to Canada and the United States in the fall of 1951. Released in December 1951, 'Royal Journey' is also notable for being the first commercial feature film in Eastmancolor.[http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Products/Chronology_Of_Film/chrono2.htm Chronology of Motion Picture Films: 19401959], Kodak.

'Royal Journey' features sequences from Quebec City, Quebec, the National War Memorial in Ottawa, CFB Trenton and a performance of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, as well as sequences in Toronto, Ontario, Regina, Saskatchewan, the Albertan city of Calgary, and the Albertan capital of Edmonton.

'Royal Journey' also shows the royal couple crossing the Rocky Mountains by rail and making stops in several small towns. In Vancouver, British Columbia, they board HMCS 'Crusader' in Vancouver and attend native dances in Thunderbird Park. The action then briefly shifts to the U.S., where they are welcomed by President Harry S. Truman. The remainder of the journey includes visits to Montreal, Quebec, the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Charlottetown, a steel mill in Sydney, Nova Scotia and finally Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.

'Royal Journey' was directed by David Bairstow, Gudrun Parker and Roger Blais and produced by Tom Daly for the NFB. It received a Canadian Film Award for best theatrical feature-length documentary and was named best documentary film of 1952 at the British Academy Film Awards.

See also



* 'A Queen Is Crowned'

References




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